Now a days players can easily get their gaming fix via apps on their phones and tablets. Newer and younger players probably don’t even think of looking any further to find traditional online gaming sites to play on their desktops.

Maybe what LG needs is dedicated apps on ios and android phones and tablets. That should not be horrendously hard. Livecode is going open source ( and free as in beer ) at the end of the month. It will be dual licensed so that you can pay if you want to distribute your apps and programs and you don’t want them to be open source as well.

@DavidAn abstract game is a virtual reality. Till recently the best ‘implementation’ was in wood (or plastic). So we called them boardgames. They will evolve in tablet games, or phonegames or phabletgames in no time. Not only can you play virtually any abstract, but a whole class of new abstracts will be possible using the features provided. I’ll give a few examples:

Stapeldammen on an actual board is a game of manual dexterity. Very distracting. No problem on an app.

Multiplicity was designed with this aspect in mind: without an app to keep track of the scores, the game would hardly be playable (we’re working on an applet by the way).

Mu-velox is maybe the clearest example here: it can be played on a regular (composite) board, but figuring out a good move in this multimove environment takes trial and error, in casu the taking back of multiple steps and trying anew, till one has determined one.

z, I forgot how much fun GTrends are...http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=chess%2C%20Einstein%2C%20board%20game%2C%20handball%2C%20skiing&cmpt=qhttp://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=board%20game%2C%20checkers%2C%20card%20game%2C%20Socrates%2C%20abstract%20game&cmpt=qhttp://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=reversi%2C%20Epicurus%2C%20blokus%2C%20shogi%2C%20abstract%20game&cmpt=qhttp://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=gomoku%2C%20pentago%2C%20Anaximander%2C%20abstract%20game%2C%20littlegolem&cmpt=qhttp://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=xianqi%2C%20arimaa%2C%20littlegolem%2C%20dvonn%2C%20Thrasymachus&cmpt=q

Looking at google trends is all very nice and great fun, but it only tells you about trends on desk tops, as used increasingly by, greying, olding fuddy duddies. ( It is not some kind of magical meter that gives you absolute knowledge about the present trends in the real world).